Monday, March 17, 2014

Virgil Films And Entertainment Goes Cold Turkey On May 27

The Turners will be
getting together for a Thanksgiving feast that you will not soon forget on May
27!

While you expect the
turkey to get carved up, what you don’t necessarily expect at a family
gathering is when the “verbal carving” is far more vicious than any knife blade
— indeed, a verbal food fight is in the offing when the Turners sit down to
this Thanksgiving dinner and you’re invited!

May 27 is the street date
that Virgil Films & Entertainment has selected for the DVD debut of
writer/director Will Slocombe’s very black comedy, Cold Turkey.Circle
that date on your calendar … you will not want to be late for this meal.

The patriarch of the
Turner clan, Poppy, is played by auteur
filmmaker and screen icon Peter Bogdanovich … it is a very different role for
him.His wife, Deborah — and stepmother
to two of his three adult children — is none other than the always-gorgeous
Cheryl Hines.She plays a gracefully
aging “trophy bride.”

A “trophy bride,” not in
the traditional sense of a vacuous beauty (an ornament), but a smart and sexy
woman who married a college professor and advisor to those in high places of
power.There was a time when such a
match was exciting.That no longer is
the case.

Those corridors of power
— that he once strolled with the elites — have long since been closed to
him.He drinks now … and secretly dreads
the family gathering that has finally arrived.

While the back and forth
between “mom” and Poppy’s eldest daughter, Lindsay (Sonya Walger — as Penelope
'Penny' Widmore in the Lost TV series), is polite, but
acerbic, no such nuance exists when Nina (Alicia Witt) — who has been absent
for the past 15 years — storms the castle.

She is bright, rude, more
than a flake, smacks of a privileged upbringing and is very much to the point
in her dislike of Deborah … and what she expects from dear old!

The third element in this
sibling mix is Jacob (Ashton Holmes), who tries to play the role of peacemaker,
but realizes early on that that is a fool’s errand.Besides, he has bigger issues … just one
more major crisis for Poppy to deal with!

Cold Turkey is wicked mix of social commentary (Bogdanovich’s
expressions and understatements are simply marvelous) dipped in the blackest of
comedy traditions.At this family
get-together it would come as no surprise if blood is shed.